{"id":746,"date":"2006-03-09T19:02:04","date_gmt":"2006-03-10T00:02:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=746"},"modified":"2006-03-11T23:51:07","modified_gmt":"2006-03-12T04:51:07","slug":"leveling-game-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=746","title":{"rendered":"Leveling Game Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Next Generation shares some information from a report from researchers at Screen Digest (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.next-gen.biz\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2447&#038;Itemid=2\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The report states that game companies will commission service providers in Eastern Europe and South Asia to help alleviate rising development costs associated with next generation games development.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There&#8217;s another, related opinion piece over on site. It starts off on a dire note (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.next-gen.biz\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2446&#038;Itemid=2\" target=\"blank\">Link<\/a>): <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you work in the game industry, and hold firm to the notion that your job is safe, you&#8217;re in for a nasty surprise. The days of empty cubicles could be upon us again&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That&#8217;s unfortunate to hear, but it&#8217;s this part that really got my attention: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It also does not help that the game industry is so far-flung. There are hotspots up the West Coast, Texas and in the North East, as well as in East Asia and Western Europe, but it&#8217;s not like so many industries which are identified by their location. This makes it difficult for people to flit from one job to another.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If there was any industry one might think could allow workers to telecommute it&#8217;s the videogame industry. I&#8217;ve never worked inside the industry, but I can&#8217;t imagine this is a hurdle that can&#8217;t be overcome. I&#8217;ll be watching for this to change. One way or another.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next Generation shares some information from a report from researchers at Screen Digest (Link): The report states that game companies will commission service providers in Eastern Europe and South Asia to help alleviate rising development costs associated with next generation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/?p=746\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-administrative"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rebang.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}